Pte. Kevin Dallaire, 22, was killed Aug. 3 in a rocket-propelled grenade attack during fighting with Taliban forces just west of Kandahar in
Afghanistan. He was with the 1st Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton.

Dallaire was one of three the 20th, 21st and 22nd Canadian soldiers to be killed in Afghanistan since 2002.